The school of history :
Munn, Mark Henderson.
The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates / Mark Munn. - Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xii, 525 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-467) and indexes.
Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 The Past of Democratic Athens; 2 The Aristocracy of Democratic Athens; 3 Servants of the Athenian Democracy; 4 The Expulsion of Alcibiades, 415-413; 5 Rationalizing Oligarchy, 413-411; 6 A Procession of Victories, 411-408; 7 The Limits of Democratic Imperative, 408-405; 8 Surrendering to Sparta, 405-404; 9 The Athenian Civil War, 404-403; 10 The Laws of Athens, 403-400; 11 Eliminating Socrates, 401-399; 12 Athenian Democracy and History, 399-395; Appendices; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; General Index.
History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and the sophists, and set the stage for the education and early careers of Plato and Xenophon, among others.
9780520929715 0520929713 0585391165 9780585391168 0520215575 9780520215573 1597348880 9781597348881
479-431 B.C
Democracy--Historiography.--Greece--Athens
HISTORY--Ancient.
Civilization--Political aspects.
Democracy--Historiography.
Athens (Greece)--Civilization--Political aspects.
Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Greece.
Greece--Athens.
Athene.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
DF277 / .M86 2000eb
938/.04
The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates / Mark Munn. - Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xii, 525 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-467) and indexes.
Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 The Past of Democratic Athens; 2 The Aristocracy of Democratic Athens; 3 Servants of the Athenian Democracy; 4 The Expulsion of Alcibiades, 415-413; 5 Rationalizing Oligarchy, 413-411; 6 A Procession of Victories, 411-408; 7 The Limits of Democratic Imperative, 408-405; 8 Surrendering to Sparta, 405-404; 9 The Athenian Civil War, 404-403; 10 The Laws of Athens, 403-400; 11 Eliminating Socrates, 401-399; 12 Athenian Democracy and History, 399-395; Appendices; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; General Index.
History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and the sophists, and set the stage for the education and early careers of Plato and Xenophon, among others.
9780520929715 0520929713 0585391165 9780585391168 0520215575 9780520215573 1597348880 9781597348881
479-431 B.C
Democracy--Historiography.--Greece--Athens
HISTORY--Ancient.
Civilization--Political aspects.
Democracy--Historiography.
Athens (Greece)--Civilization--Political aspects.
Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Greece.
Greece--Athens.
Athene.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
DF277 / .M86 2000eb
938/.04
